One more review in the sphere of free games. It is Albion. The graphics of the game, for instance, are robustly detailed and colored, drawing their style from somewhere between Johnny Quest comic books and the more, not as racing games or sports games, “serious” essence of Origin’s Ultima worlds.
The same is a fact of both the game’s plot and its supporting cast of human and alien characters. Indeed, the idea of the future is a multi-hued one in Albion, and communicating with your multinational peers and the exotic, catlike aliens instills a cross-cultural empathy that few games have managed to successfully convey. A game made for kids of all ages.
It is not until and unless gamers venture beneath the surface, however, that Albion turns disagreeable.
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